Five Years Under the Southern Cross by Frederic C. Spurr is an essay about the English perspective of the Australian empire and its westward expansion. Excerpt: "Going to the Ends of the Earth, The Golden West, An Accomplished Miracle and a Prediction, Adelaide, the Queen City of Australia, The Romance of Melbourne, The Beauty of Sydney, At Botany Bay, Brisbane, the Queen City of the North, Queensland, the Rich Unpeopled State, The Romance of Queensland Sugar, The Australian Winter and Spring, Bush Holidays, Some Bush Yarns, 114, A Honeymoon in the Bush, 15, The Highwaymen of the Bush 130."